テンペスト

smz - 23:29

世間では、えらい勢いでギター論争が行われてる中、ボブ・ディランのニュー・アルバムが正式にアナウンスされた

通算35枚目のスタジオ録音そして、アルバム・デビュー50周年にあたるボブ・ディランのニューアルバム「テンペスト（Tempest）が9月11日に発売される。プロデュースはディラン（ジャック・フォレスト）本人。

今日出たリリースに書かれている情報はこれだけだ。後は、iTunesとAmazonのプリセールとディラン自慢。

曲目は

01. Duquesne Whistle
02. Soon After Midnight
03. Narrow Way
04. Long and Wasted Years
05. Pay In Blood
06. Scarlet Town
07. Early Roman Kings
08. Tin Angel
09. Tempest
10. Roll On John

の10曲。

噂になった、14分のタイタニックの曲（おそらく　Soon After Midnightか?）そしてジョン・レノンの曲（最後の曲か?）が含まれているのかは現時点ではわからない。

また気になるジャケ写の彫刻だが、これはハロルドによれば、ギリシャ神話に登場する、アテネを守る守護の女神「Pallas Athena（パラス・アテナ）」だそうだ。

Pallas-Athena Fountain, Vienna, Austria

ゼウスの頭を斧で割って生まれてきたきたのがパラス・アテナ
▼戦いの神アテナ

パラス・アテナの名は複数の船舶の名前や機動戦士Zガンダム、トランプ（スペードのクイーン）などに使われてるそうだ。

それにしても、テンペスト、タイタニック、ジョン・レノン、9.11そしてパラス・アテナと並べただけで怖くなりそうだ.....

▼Dylan Digest (ISIS MAGAZINE)
▼Bob Dylan Tempest Tracklist, Release Date (Twenty Four Bit)

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July 17, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW BOB DYLAN ALBUM – TEMPEST - SET FOR SEPTEMBER RELEASE

COLLECTION OF TEN NEW BOB DYLAN SONGS
MARKS MUSICIAN’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY AS A RECORDING ARTIST

Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, Tempest, will be released on September 11, 2012. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artist’s eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962.

Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon. The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35thth studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009’s worldwide best-seller, Together Through Life.

Bob Dylan’s four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.

Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one million copies.

Those four releases fell within a 12-year creative span that also included the recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning composition, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan also released his first collection of holiday standards, Christmas In The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist’s royalties from that album being donated to hunger charities around the world.

This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University as well as numerous other honors.

Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon.

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ジョン・レノンと言えば、例のジミー・ファロンの番組.....ニュー・プロテスト・ソングって.....何か聞き覚えがあるようなないような......